On Monday at WWDC 2025, Apple unveiled a series of new features, which will be launched with iOS 26, with this decline in the apps. These include important updates such as call screening, more travel-friendly features in wallets and highly requested group chat features in messages.
Some of these updates include Apple Intelligence, such as live translation. Others, such as bringing back tabs into the Apple Photo App, simply make the equipment a little easier to use. We will update this post as new features come out.
phone
The call screening lets you determine what the call is before taking it. When you get a call from an unknown number, the call screening will automatically answer in the background. When the caller shares his name and the cause of their call, the iPhone will ring, and you can see their feedback before deciding whether to take it or ignore it.
Hold Assist will detect hold music and stay on line for you until a live agent is available, and translates conversations on live translation fly. As soon as you talk, your words will be translated, and the translation is spoken loudly through the AI voice to the call recipient. As you are speaking to answer in your language, you will hear a spoken translation of his voice.
Messages
Members in group chats on messages can now create elections for better plan events and take quick decisions. Apple Intelligence will also find out when the pole may be useful and suggested that users start one. In addition, group chats can now create a custom background for chat and see typing indicators, and now you can send and receive apple cash request in group chat.
The app now lets you screen the messages of unknown sectors. Messages of unknown sectors will appear in a dedicated folder where you can mark the number as known, ask for more information, or remove the message. Apple notes that these messages will remain silent until a user accepts them.
Live translation is also coming in messages. The feature will automatically translate the text for you as you type and distribute it in your favorite language. When the person you are texting, reacts, their message will be translated to you.
Apple Music
Apple Music users will get access to a song translation feature to help understand words in their favorite songs in other languages. A new song pronunciation feature will showcase phonetic songs so that the listeners can sing in a different language.
The app is also adding an audiomics feature that will transition to a song using stretching the next time from a song and will beat Milan like DJ to give continuous playback. This feature can be seen as a competitor for AI DJ feature of Spotify.
Apple is also offering a karaoke facility that will convert your iPhone into a microphone in one hand for Apple TV. This feature will increase your voice as you belt your favorite songs, as real -time lyrics and scenes appear on the TV screen.
You can pin your favorite music to allow easily to reach the top of your library in Apple Music.
Apple map
Apple Maps are going to be better in understanding your daily traffic. Now it will use on-deform intelligence, when you go to the house or office, you will start showing you the favorite route. The app will inform you about the delay and also offer alternative routes.
Apple Maps are also getting the facility of a new visiting places that will help you remember the places you were. When you are at a restaurant or shop, you can choose to detect your iPhone, and can see all your visiting places in the map. Apple notes that have gone to places have been protected with end-to-end encryption and cannot access them.
Apple wallet
Apple Wallet is introducing people the ability to store the digital version of their passport, called Digital ID. Tech giants note that this will not be a replacement for your actual passport, but it can be used in apps that need to verify age and identity, and supported TSA posts. With the actual ID implementation in the effect, digital ID will give you another way to introduce an ID in the person during a domestic trip.
In addition, another feature will introduce you to your driver’s license or state ID on websites for verification of age and identity in wallets, which will begin with Jhankar, Turo, Uber Eats and US Bank -Arizona MVD, Georgia DDS and Maryland MVA.
Apple is also refreshing its boarding pass experience in Wallet. Now you will find real -time updates about flights with live activities. You can also share live activities of your flight with others so that they can be updated on your journey.
Now you will be able to use the map from your boarding pass in the wallet to navigate at the airport. You can also report the lost to track items and the lost goods from the boarding pass, and can also see major services on the airline app, such as seat upgrades and standby lists.
Apple also announced that the wallet now uses Apple Intelligence to automatically abbreviate and display the order tracking details from the email sent from traders or delivery carriers.
face time
Like phones and messages, facetime will take advantage of live translations to communicate with each other in different languages. When you are talking to someone in a different language, the facetime will display translated captions so that you can understand each other.
photo
After receiving the important user backlash for its photo app redigation in iOS18, Apple is bringing back a tabled interface in the photo. In the collection, you will find the ability to search in your favorite, album and your library. The library tab makes it easy to scroll through recent photos.
Photo App is also capable of converting your 2D photos into 3D spatial photos.
Quarrel
The iPhone camera app will display the two capture modes that you use the most on the main screen: Photo and Video. To reveal extra mode such as portrait mode and cinematic mode, you can swipe your finger left or right.
To reach other settings, such as flash, timer, aperture, and more, you will now swipe from under the screen. You can also change the format with a tap, which can be helpful when switching between HD and 4K resolution or adjusting the frame rate on the video.
Apple podcast
Apple Podcast is getting a new customized playback experience that will allow you to choose the speed option from 0.5x and 3x. This feature will bring more listening experience to the spotify on Apple Podcast, which already lets you choose the playback speed for podcast.
In addition, Apple Podcasts are getting a “Engeane Colidology” feature that will use audio processing and machine learning to make the speech more clear on background sounds.
Image playground
Apple is adding a chatgpt integration to the supercharged image playground. You will be able to use new styles, such as vector art or an oil painting. In addition, you will be able to tap the “any style” option you want. The image playground will send details or photos to the chat to create a unique image.
